Eight days: Your one-stop guide to the week ahead - October 22 to 29

By Emily Marr and Leisha Kapor

Today OCT 22

MUSIC The 2017 Melbourne Festival goes out with a celebration of diversity, beginning with Our Place, Our Home performances by emerging Australian musicians of refugee and Indigenous backgrounds. Aiming to highlight under-represented musical styles, this event sees new musicians from Multicultural Arts Victoria's State of Culture Music Program performing with leading names. 1pm, MPavilion, Queen Victoria Gardens, St Kilda Road, city, free, 96624242, festival.melbourne

THEATRE The Monash Centre for Theatre and Performing Arts presents Jack of Two Trades, based on the classic comedy by Carlo Goldoni. This musical is filled with soaring melodies, disguises, trickery, declarations of love, fornicating, food and feelings. Jack of Two Trades features a cast of student and professional actors. 5pm, Drama Theatre, Monash University, 55 Scenic Drive, Clayton, $15-$20, 9905 1111, monash.edu/mapa

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FAMILY Mario, Luigi and their friends take over ACMI Family Sunday's for Melbourne International Games Week. In a day of interactive gameplay, attendees can challenge each other on the new Nintendo Switch, dress up as game characters and enter the world of Minecraft through greenscreen technology. Games Week continues until October 29. 10am-4pm, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, free, 8663 2200, gamesweek.melbourne

Chelsea Gustafffson explores the transience of earthly pleasures in Legacies.

MUSIC Melbourne duo the Orbweavers unveil their new album, Deep Leads, in a special matinee show at Northcote Social Club. The album explores buried and hidden things and stories of place and time. Biddy Connor and Dave Williams kick things off with viola, saw and percussion. 1.30pm, Northcote Social Club, 301 High Street, Northcote, $10, 9489 3917, northcotesocialclub.com

Mon OCT 23

THEATRE It's 1643, the original Globe burnt down years ago and the second Globe Theatre is closed. The only way to reopen the theatre is for William Davenant to pen a propaganda play for Oliver Cromwell. Around the Globe in 60 Minutes explores the tumultuous history of the Globe. Until Nov 12, today, 10.30am, Pop-Up Globe, Sydney Myer Music Bowl, Kings Domain Gardens, Linlithgow Avenue, city, $15-$25.50, 1361 00, popupglobe.com.au

Tue OCT 24

FOOD Scarf Dinners allow young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, to gain hospitality skills and paid experience. The spring season sees Auction Rooms offer a two-course menu prepared by expert chefs, and served by Scarf trainees. Dishes such as crab and sweet corn risotto are complimented by a sponsored drinks list. Until Nov 21, various times, Auction Rooms, 103 Errol Street, North Melbourne, $45, scarfcommunity.org

Wed OCT 25

TALK In celebration of 20 years since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Wheeler Centre presents a night of music, stories and revelry in Harry Who? The True Heroes of Hogwarts. Guests such as Ben Pobjie, Clementine Ford, Justin Heazlewood, C.S.Pacat and Cal Wilson discuss who the real hero of the series was. 7.30pm, Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins Street, city, $25-$35, 9094 7809, wheelercentre.com

Overheard by Oslo Davis. Bulleen, Sunday 3pm Him: "Sorry, I was in Sydney last weekend." Her: "That's totally fine! Really. It's not as if I need to know your every move 24/7 ... Anyway, where'd you go and who'd you go with?"

Thu OCT 26

THEATRE UK performer Joe Sellman-Leava brings his award-winning one-man show from Edinburgh Fringe Festival to Gasworks Arts Park. Labels uses a mix of stand-up comedy, storytelling and spoken word to tell an honest and moving story about the way we use words and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric. 7.30pm, Gasworks Theatre, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park, $40-$45, 8606 4200, gasworks.org.au

Fri OCT 27

MUSIC NGV Friday Nights feature live music, food, drinks and after hours access to The House of Dior exhibition. This week JOY. takes the stage ahead of the release of her new music. Her 2015 EP, Ode, saw the electronic-indie singer hit number one on iTunes and sell out her national tour. 6pm-10pm, NGV Australia, 180 St Kilda Road, city, $12-$35, 8662 1555, ngv.vic.gov.au

Sat-Sun OCT 28-29

ART Chelsea Gustaffson explores the transience of earthly pleasures and contemplates mortality in Legacies, an exhibition of still life paintings of bric-a-brac and accumulations of objects. She encourages us to reflect on our legacy of plastic and waste, by constructing the objects in her paintings of synthetic materials that will not decompose. Until Nov 4, Sat, 9am-4pm, Boom Gallery, 11Rutland Street, Newtown, free, boomgallery.com.au

STAGE Independent theatre company wit incorporated brings prison life to the stage in Outside In. As the outside world creeps into the prison, seven women must navigate their restricted lives behind bars. When a new inmate arrives and another prepares to leave, the carefully laid out order begins to crack. Until Nov 4, Sat, 7.30pm, Sun, 3pm, Bluestone Church Arts Space, 8a Hyde Street, Footscray, $25, witinc.com.au